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Program |
Description of CONFIDENTIAL SAP
Services |
Time, day
Location |
Key
Contact person |
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One-on-one
Appointments with:
-one student
-one family |
Any student may request a meeting with a SAP staff member.
Any family may request a meeting with a SAP staff member. |
Appointments
are scheduled
from:
8-5:00, M-F, 12 months a year |
Mary Ballestero or Sophia Hernandez
238-9770 |
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K-12 Counseling Program |
K-12 School Counselor: Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. They are the S.A.P. team members on site at every school. Call the school for an appointment. Counselors meet with students individually or in small groups, lead classroom guidance lessons, and are available to staff and parents for support and to link them to the district and/or community resources. |
Call the school directly. |
School counselors |
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CHEMICAL |
Desert Sands policies require any student who receives an alcohol or other drug suspension to participate in the Student Assistance Insight program. Students and families meet with SAP staff individually to develop an action plan to build better choices and direction in their lives. Students participate in the Insight Education Program and parents are informed if a referral to a formal assessment and/or drug testing available in the community is appropriate. |
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SAP counselors and consultants |
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CONFLICT
Awareness
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SAP helps individual students, families with any problems associated with conflict like anger management, bully/victim/bystander dynamics, fighting, or on-going family conflicts that impacts school. SAP Plan could include assessment, intervention plan, educational support group, and/or conflict mediation services. |
Call SAP office or School Counselor |
Denise
Muller
or
Xochitl Velasquez |
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Student INSIGHT
educational intervention groups |
Insight educational groups are designed to offer alcohol and other drug or conflict education, anger management intervention, decision making, and support for positive changes. |
HIGH SCHOOL INSIGHT
Tuesday Summit High School
3:30-5:00 in Room 259
Thursday Indio High School
3:00-4:30 Room 305
MIDDLE SCHOOL INSIGHT
Tuesday at Summit High School 5:00-6:00
Room 259 |
“POPS” Carter,
SAP Consultant
Xochitl Velasquez,
SAP Counselor
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Basic Understanding of Teens and Tobacco |
Helps students become aware of problems associated with tobacco and/or how to quit using tobacco. Referrals to cessation programs are available for youth and adults. |
One hour interview, 1.5 hr. assessment |
Steve Chambers |
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P.R.I.C.E. Basic Parenting Workshops |
Skills taught include limit setting, positive and negative consequences, and communication skills to promote balanced parenting. |
Series of four two-hour evening sessions.
|
Sophia Hernandez/Denise Muller |
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Strengthening Families Workshops |
The workshops bring together middle school students and their families for a shared meal and discussions on ways to improve relationships with each other and with their peers and teachers. The goal is to motivate change that meets each family’s goals. |
Six to eight sessions as scheduled by selected sites. |
Sophia Hernandez/Denise Muller |
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K-5 student support groups |
K-5th Support groups are offered at selected elementary schools. |
Selected elementary schools |
K-5 Counselors |
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Conflict Mediators Training and Services |
Training for middle and high schools which includes the cycle of conflict, conflict styles, listening skills, mediation process, impasse management, resolution options, and guided practice. |
Middle and High School Students |
Denise Muller |
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Teen Pregnancy |
Nurses will counsel with sexually active teens, pregnant teens or any referrals. |
Call SAP office |
Call for school nurse |